After the December release of his first single in English we’re a dream nobody wrote down, Ludovic Alarie unveils we don’t exist a new song combining English and French. It premiered yesterday on Stereogum: “It feels like a tailor-made soundtrack for those moments when you just completely space out from everything and everyone surrounding around you. A chilling yet ruminative Wurlitzer illuminates this sensation of being in a world of one’s own, and is exacerbated by the change of language used: The first half of the track is in English, the rest in French”.
Ludovic describes the song: “We recorded the song live altogether in studio while playing as quietly as possible. Warren was on the Wurlitzer, Simone on drums and Adele was singing while improvising. Mishka had just tried a Mexican Guitarrón at the studio and decided to play on it. It resulted in a spontaneous, spacious and dreamy arrangement that worked perfectly for the song. We were all very impressed by the sound quality of the take and Simone found the perfect image to describe it which is that ‘it almost feels like cotton’…”.
“I wrote the lyrics with Tasia (Bachir). We started by writing the lyrics in English. We thought it would be interesting to write the lyrics in French for the second part as a reflection of what was happening musically – we always found that the instrumental part in the middle of the song sounded really transitional. We wrote the lyrics in French by rethinking the meaning of the English lyrics in a different way. It ended up adding a cyclical aspect to the song “ explains Ludovic. “The lyrics are about obsessionally looking at the same places for someone or something that you have never known” adds Alarie.
Warren C. Spicer produced, recorded and mixed the song at Mixart Studio in Montreal. Alarie is accompanied by Warren C. Spicer (Plants & Animals), Simone Pace (Blonde Redhead), Adèle Trottier-Rivard (Le Bleu), and Mishka Stein (Patrick Watson). The single is being released in Canada under Ludovic’s own label chouchou records that he co-founded with Tasia Bachir and under Asa Wa Kuru, Blonde Redhead’s label, in the US.
Hello
ssshh napping to recover from leaving the house
Don’t overstress yourself!
I never, knowingly, do
Whereas I do, needs must.
We ended up getting 27 cm of snow, and boy it was blowing all night! Drifts up to roughly one yard here and there. And over one yard plus ploughed RIGHT IN FROM OF MY LANEWAY by the plough, but I don’t mind, you can tell — it’s of course completely unavoidable, and I’m not the only one faced with a quarter ton of snow right there.
I’ve worked for perhaps an hour in the virgin stuff, and there’s probably 40 minutes’ worth left.
But now, at last, breakfast!
Good morning!
It does take energy to venture out there among people. Rest up Garf.
Benoît is like the Energizer Bunny. He just keeps going and going. I am glad you are taking a breakfast break before tackling the rest of the snow.
We got some snow here yesterday as well. Not much but it does make a lovely fluffy new white coat.
Yeah, but this ‘energizer bunny’ doesn’t write about the days he spends recuperating (i.e. doing eff-all): they also happen. Writing is a bit like t.v.: makes things look better than real life.
Also, others’ lives always seem better; it’s probably simply an effect of the above.
But that’s not getting me breakfast! Ciao for niao.
Did you know
The Energizer Bunny was first created as a parody of the Duracell Bunny, which first appeared in television advertising in 1973, in its “Drumming Bunny” commercial. Duracell’s had purportedly trademarked the drumming bunny character, but whether they had or not, said trademark had lapsed by 1988, providing Energizer an opening to create their own trademark.
I get that Benoît. You don’t really know what is going on in people’s lives just by what they have written. Mostly we get the highlight reel.
How dare Energizer steal a bunny! I did not know.
Time to lace my snowshoe boots back on (glad I bought the tall, half-calf ones years ago) and go move snow from here to there. Over and over and and over and over and over and over and over…
More from the wiki on that contentious bunny. The Energizer takeover wasn’t complete.
“1990 Duracell trademark dispute
When Energizer’s 1988 parody became an advertising success and Energizer trademarked its bunny, Duracell decided to revive the Duracell Bunny campaign and filed for a new United States trademark of its own, referencing the original use of the character more than a decade earlier.[12] The resulting dispute resulted in a confidential January 10, 1992 out of court settlement,[13] where Energizer (and its bunny) took exclusive trademark rights in the United States and Canada, and Duracell (and its bunny) took exclusive rights in all other places in the world.[14] ”
and..
“In North America the term “Energizer Bunny” has entered the vernacular as a term for anything that continues endlessly, or someone that has immense stamina. In Europe and Australia the term “Duracell Bunny” has a similar connotation.”
Here: https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/ottawa/ottawa-gatineau-snow-pictures-videos-1.5017209?cmp=rss
Good morning everyone!
Hi!
Hello!
I will never think of the Energizer Bunny the same again.
Those are some fun Ottawa pics. It will take a couple days to get things moving no doubt.
Ottawa arterials are not only mostly clear ((maybe 3/4 width), but there’s little traffic. I think we were so snowed-in this morning that many, many people either worked from home or took a snow day. It was 3:20 and there should have been some traffic. There wasn’t. No, I’m not complaining.
Now, about the side streets… There’s a delivery microvan nicely stuck on ours, among other amusing features. Large snowbanks have become huge.
@DBS, come here for the music, stay for trademarks 101 course
I’m thinking that what Ottawa got is standard for those ‘Lake effect’ communities — for instance Rochester, just south of Lake Ontario, often gets dumps we simply don’t get.
Haha yup. Learn so much here.
Meanwhile on the prairies it was warmer at -20 today but forecasting -41 overnight. Blech!!
NASA’s Record-Setting Opportunity Rover Mission on Mars Comes to End
https://www.nasa.gov/press-release/nasas-record-setting-opportunity-rover-mission-on-mars-comes-to-end
(Garf) Astounding how emotional people get about the end-of-life of a (yes, complex, stunning, high-performance) machine. A machine.
The link supplied above contains a nice under-four-minute summary of Opportunity’s many years on Mars.
we are trained from a young age to see some inanimate objects as something we can safely give I love to (think stuffed toy) and when we “grow up” we use what we learned in childhood to anthropomorphize objects.
I hear that some weirdos feel compelled to thank talking elevators when they exit at their desired floor *shifty eyes*
That’s alright. I say excuse me when I fart or burp loudly. Even though there’s no-one around.
Even outside of the training you mention, humans have a tendency to anthropomorphise (shit, quite a word) many things.
yeah, I was really trying to work around that word, but it kept jumping in the way
some swine ate all the food in my room 🙁
speaking of food, could someone that know more about Poutine than me tell me why I shouldn’t eat here when I am in Sheffield later in the year?
https://www.thegtpoutine.com/
No reason not to try that place…
I think you should definitely try it.
https://youtu.be/f7RwDnZI7Tw